CIT 312– Database Management Systems

Course Name Database Management Systems

Course Code CIT 312

Course Type Compulsory Course

Course Level Undergraduate

AKTS Credit 5 ECTS

Course hours per week (Institutional) 2

Practice hours per week -

Laboratory hours per week 2

Academic Semester Spring

Course coordinator(s)

Instruction system

Medium language English

Prerequisite -

Suggestions related to course N/A

Training required N/A

Aim of the course 1. learn techniques required to implement good database design both in theory and in practice

2. Gaining a general perspective on most recent databases used in today’s computing world: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, IBMDB2, Ms Access etc 3. Understand and use relational database design and Structured Query Language (SQL) used with relational databases.

4. Skill to understand and use Entity-Relationship diagrams and normalization of data. 5. Overview the functions of database management systems (DBMS) and of a database administrator (DBA)

Learning outcomes 1. Use SQL to create and modify tables in relational databases 2. Work in groups on a project to design and create a database for an application requiring a small to average number of tables 3. Merge normalized relations from each user view into a complete set of normalized relations for a simple business application 4. Prepare an Entity Relationship Diagram for a simple business application 5. Use SQL to retrieve data from relational databases 6. Prepare the physical relational database schema for a simple business application 7. Identify user views for an application 8. Normalize a user view to 3rd Normal Form 9. Describe the basic differences between relational, hierarchical and network databases 10. Describe the basic functions of a Database Management System 11. Describe the responsibilities of a Database

Administrator in an organization

Course Content

Course content per week

Week Topics

Theory Practice

1 Introduction to Databases, What are the advantages

and Disadvantages? Example of Database

Systems

Introduction to Microsoft Access

2 Introduction to Relational Databases: Entities,

Attributes, Relationships, Primary Keys and Foreign

Keys

Creating tables in Microsoft Access, defining relations

between tables

3 Entity - Relationship diagram, defining entities

and relationships

Apply entity-relationship model in Ms Acess 2010

4 Metadata. Relational Database systems in detail

Apply metadata, relational schema in Ms Access 2010

5 Quiz Quiz Solution and more exercises

6 Converting database tables into entity-relationship

diagrams (ERDs)and defining database schema

Drawing entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs)from actual

tables and relationships defined in a database

7 Midterm

8 Introduction to SQL : DML Statements : Create Database, Create Table, Select

Access Forms and using SQL commands in Microsoft Access (create database, create table)

9 SQL : More DML Statements : Insert, Delete and Update operations, Alter table etc.

Access Forms and using SQL commands in Microsoft Access (insert, delete, update, alter table etc.)

10 Introduction to Normalization: UNF, 1NF, 2NF Dependencies, 3NF

Normalization exercises

11 Database project presentation

12 Normalization and de-normalization

Normalization exercises and using normalized tables in Microsoft Access

13 Quiz Quiz solution

14

Review -

15 Final exam

Course book and references :

Course book: Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management by Peter Rob (Author), Carlos Coronel (Author) Publisher: Course Technology; 8 edition (December 20, 2007)

References: Fundamentals of Database Systems (5th Edition) Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington Shamkant B. Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology Publisher: Addison Wesley; 5 edition (March 17, 2006)

Evaluation

Quizzes 10% Project: 25% Midterm exam: 25% Final exam: 40%

Semester Activities Number Contribution percentage to course mark %

Midterm Exam 1 25

Project 1 25

Final Exam 1 40

Quizzes 2 10

TOTAL

Calculation work load within the framework of learning, teaching and evaluation activities

Activities Number Time

(hour) Total work load

(hour)

Weekly theory hour 14 2 28

Weekly practice hour 14 2 28

Class exercise review per week 14 2 28

Term Project 1 20 20

Research Report on Databases and their differences

1 14 14

MidTerm a) Exam b) Individual study

1 1

2 12

2 12

Final a) Exam b) Individual study

1 1

2 14

2 14

TOTAL WORK LOAD(hour)= 148

COURSE ECTS CREDIT= Total work load(hour)/(30 hours/ECTS)= 148/ 30 = 4.9 = 5

Programme and learning outcomes

Learning

outcomes (LO)

Programme Output (PO)

PO 1

PO 2

PO 3

PO 4

PO 5

PO 6

PO 7

PO 8

PO 9

PO 10

PO 11

PO 12

PO 13

PO 14

PO 15

PO 16

PO 17

LO1 3 3 4 4 3 5 5 4

LO2 3 3 4 4 3 5 5 4

LO3 3 5 4 4 3 4 5

LO4 3 5 4 4 3 4 3

LO5 3 5 4 4 3 5 4 3

LO6 3 5 5 5 5 5 3

LO7 3 3 5 5 5 3

LO8 3 3 5 5 5 3

LO9 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 3 4

L10 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4

L11 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 4

*Contribution Level:

1 very low 2 low 3 medium 4 high 5 very high